Wednesday, August 6, 2014

zramctl

I merged zramctl tool a few days ago. It's based on original code from Timofey Titovets and the idea is the same as for losetup(8). zRam was merged to Linux kernel 3.14; the zram devices use RAM to create compressed block devices. The zramctl provides user friendly command line interface to create, reset and list the devices.

It's pretty simple and easy to use from userspace. See example below (kernel 3.15.7-200.fc20)